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Aurecon Hatch

Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal

Project Summary

Project

The AUD 2 billion Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal project to add an 80-million-ton per-annum coal export terminal to the port of Gladstone, Australia, required Aurecon Hatch to design the electrical and instrumentation of the bulk materials handling infrastructure of the coal terminal. An estimated 1,200 schematics formed part of the 2,000 deliverables. Initially creating the schematics with unintelligent AutoCAD drafting, Aurecon Hatch recognized the need to consider an alternative approach to meet the tight deadline within budget.

Solution

To save time and costs, Aurecon Hatch transitioned to MicroStation and adopted Promis.e for the remainder of the project. Hatch used Promis.e for electrical drawing standard enforcement, data centric modeling, and to automate the creation of schematic drawings and generation of reports. Integrating Promis.e with PlantSpace allowed the electrical, instrumentation, and plant design teams to synchronize their data. The accuracy and interoperability of Bentley tools enabled Aurecon Hatch to deliver the project quickly and efficiently.

Outcome

Integrating Bentley tools provided a stable and sustainable solution, enabling Aurecon Hatch to meet the aggressive project schedule and set the framework for significant savings during design production. Using a data centric interface to make updates and corrections saved considerable time. Compared to a traditional CAD approach, Bentley software reduced expensive engineering resources required for manual checking by 50%.

Transitioning from a traditional CAD approach to MicroStation saved Aurecon Hatch significant time and costs designing the electrical and instrumentation of the bulk materials handling infrastructure of the new coal terminal at the port of Gladstone, Australia.